I'm not surprised by this. Copyight is about the interpretation of an idea. If Marcel Duchamp claims copyright on putting a moustache on the Mona Lisa then I can see that I am stealing his idea by putting a moustache on another similar famous painting by da Vinci.
In this case the idea is the red bus against a black and white image. Actually I think the first one is "obvious" having seen Schindlers list, but I can see that others may not consider it "obvious" (You are allowed to infringe another person's copyright if their idea is obvious - I believe).
This is not about the images being similar its about stealing? the red bus v. black and white parliament image background idea. There was a similar case with the classic guinness ad where someone had already shot a man dancing around a pint of beer. Then Guinness created their own version and refused to credit/pay the man with the original idea (if I remember right)
On 1 February 2012 14:45, Harry Burt <harryaburt@gmail.com> wrote:
That might actually be licensed, though.
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Richard Farmbrough <richard@farmbrough.co.uk> wrote:
I wonder if http://www.popartuk.com/photography/london/red-bus-on-westminster-bridge-ph0408-poster.asp would have been considered enough to make the idea non-novel.
On 25/01/2012 22:23, geni wrote:
On 25 January 2012 19:18, Magnus Manske<magnusmanske@googlemail.com> wrote:
...photos that somehow look similar:Nothing new here. Its always been understood that in theory if you see
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/photographers_face_copyright_threat_after_shock_ruling__news_311191.html
The servers are safe (well, relatively speaking) in the U.S., but
should people in the UK be concerned when uploading images?
Magnus
a photo and take another photo that is similar enough to it to be
considered a derivative work that that is a copyright violation.
However in most cases it would be extremely hard to prove and people
don't care enough to try.
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